Youngest and comeliest daughter of great-hearted Eurymedon, once king over the insolent Giants — by Poseidon she bore Nausithous, founder of the Phaeacian line on Scheria.1
Homer names her only in the genealogy of the Phaeacian kings. Eurymedon ruled the insolent Giants and brought destruction on his froward people; with his youngest daughter Periboea lay Poseidon, and she bore a son, great-hearted Nausithous, who ruled over the Phaeacians and begat Rhexenor and Alcinous before he himself perished.2
Through this union the sea-god enters the royal house of Scheria: Nausithous is counted godlike, and his removal of the Phaeacians from Hypereia to their walled city on Corcyra is the work of a founder sprung from the earth-shaker and a princess of the ruined Giant-kings.3
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